OVERCOMPRESSING Antonyms

• relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure)

• a change for the better

• the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

• an occurrence of control or strength weakening

• the act of making something less tight

• first or beginning

• an open or empty space in or between things

• a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise

• becoming open or being made open

• the first performance (as of a theatrical production)

• the act of opening something

• opportunity especially for employment or promotion

• the initial part of the introduction

• a possible alternative

• an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

• a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess

• the first of a series of actions

• affording physical or mental rest

• emotionally purging (of e.g. art)

• act of expanding by lengthening or widening

• exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent

• extend in one or more directions

• become larger in size or volume or quantity

• make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity

• grow vigorously

• exaggerate or make bigger

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• expand the influence of